Ohh I know a couple people who work at the maaco in Antioch.. One guy with a tj and my friends dad.. But they do crappy paint jobs..

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Define crappy. Ours is on a 20+ year old jeep with rippled panels and rock dents and chips. It still shines when we wash it but our expectation was simple: one color, our color of choice, door jambs, tailgate jamb, no peeling or flaking for at least 2-4 years.

We got all that for $650. I'm happy. It's not a $4000 paint job I have to worry about with every trail branch that scrapes along our sides or every rock that kicks up onto the grill.

Honestly, crappy paint jobs are caused by crappy prep, paint, or people. Make sure you do good prep, use good paint, and you are dealing with good people and you'll be ok.

Define crappy. Ours is on a 20+ year old jeep with rippled panels and rock dents and chips. It still shines when we wash it but our expectation was simple: one color, our color of choice, door jambs, tailgate jamb, no peeling or flaking for at least 2-4 years.

We got all that for $650. I'm happy. It's not a $4000 paint job I have to worry about with every trail branch that scrapes along our sides or every rock that kicks up onto the grill.

Honestly, crappy paint jobs are caused by crappy prep, paint, or people. Make sure you do good prep, use good paint, and you are dealing with good people and you'll be ok.

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They tend to do a lot of overspray, windows, everything, it's horrible, I know a lot of people who have gotten stuff done there and it comes out crappy and has orange peel and what not.
Needless to say I don't mind bad paint job because it will get messed up sooner or later, I just don't want my windows messed up. Or anything like that

Prep, prep, prep. The more you do up front, the better the result. Orange peel can be remedied for some extra bucks or some sweat equity on your part. Overspray comes off too. The more ya pay, the more you get. I wouldn't be putting a high dollar paint job on something I KNOW is going to get messed up.

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What you see as not bad, and what I see as not bad, are two completely different not bads

Prep, prep, prep. The more you do up front, the better the result. Orange peel can be remedied for some extra bucks or some sweat equity on your part. Overspray comes off too. The more ya pay, the more you get. I wouldn't be putting a high dollar paint job on something I KNOW is going to get messed up.

Yeah yeah, I just want it to look good before it gets messed up, it will get wheeled when I'm squared away, with my back issues, I mean I won't be wheeling it that hard... Daily driver for now, can't afford for it to be down

Got to come up with some sort of antigravity suspension seat so Jake can wheel

Tell me about it, then we can sell it for elevnty billion dollars! Mwuahhhahahahah (evil laugh)

But hey I'm more of a laxed guy, I like to chill and relax, but hey docs said I can go mudding... And that's when I tell my brother he's gotta wash it and he is like hell yeah.. Then he's like I'm not making this deal again.. It's just a circle